Tradition
Literary realism
Overview
Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward way, avoiding grandiose or exotic subject-matter, exaggerated portrayals, and speculative elements such as supernatural events and alternative worlds. It encompasses both fiction (realistic fiction) and nonfiction writing. Literary realism is a subset of the broader realist art movement that began with mid-nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal) and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin). It attempts to represent familiar things, including everyday activities and experiences, as they truly are.
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Further, the _fiction_, which is also imagination, of actions done by ourselves, which never were done, is _glorying_; but because it begetteth no appetite nor endeavour to any further attempt, it is merely _vain_ and unprofitable; as when a man imagineth himself to do the actions whereof he readeth in some _romance_, or to be like unto some other man whose acts he admireth: and this is called _vain glory_; and is…
Thomas Hobbes, The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04
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To prevent this, the mind makes the particular ideas received from particular objects to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances,—separate from all other existences, and the circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all of…
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
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But when we think we perceive colours in objects, although we are in reality ignorant of what we then denominate colour, and are unable to conceive any resemblance between the colour we suppose to be in objects, and that of which we are conscious in sensation, yet because we do not observe this, or because there are in objects several properties, as size, figure, number, etc., which, as we clearly know, exist, or…
René Descartes, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Literary realism
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- George Eliot
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- John Locke
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- Metaphysics
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- Metaphor
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Place in the tradition
Part of Romanticism.